victoria
sustantivocorriente en diálogos
- //vɪkˈtɔːɹi.ə//
A kind of low four-wheeled pleasure carriage, with a calash top, designed for two persons and the driver who occupies a high seat in front.
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A kind of low four-wheeled pleasure carriage, with a calash top, designed for two persons and the driver who occupies a high seat in front.
It was flood-tide along Fifth Avenue; motor, brougham, and victoria swept by on the glittering current; pretty women glanced out from limousine and tonneau; young men of his own type, silk-hatted, frock-coated, the crooks of their walking sticks tucked up under their left arms, passed on the Park side.
The Muslim ladies who earlier moved out in covered palanquins, dolis and muhafas or completely veiled coaches and victorias are now obliged to go about in tongas, rikshaws and buses leaving aside the earlier scruples.
Etimología
Named after Queen Victoria.
Formas
- plural
- victorias
victoria · A kind of low four-wheeled pleasure carriage, with a calash top, designed for two persons and the driver who occupies a high seat in front.
Victoria · The Roman goddess of victory, the counterpart of the Greek…Victorian · Of or relating to the reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to…victorious · Being the winner in a contest, struggle, war, etc.